Self-management support (SMS) in primary care practice: a qualitative focus group study of care professionals' experiences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To support self-management of chronically ill persons, innovative approaches of care practice are being developed. Unfortunately, many self-management supporting interventions struggle to achieve reliable and consistent improvements at various levels (patient, provider and healthcare system level). One possible strategy to facilitate translating theory into practice, is to consider the healthcare professionals' perspective prior to the development of new interventions. An exploration of their knowledge and opinion about barriers and facilitators is necessary before employing any self-management support (SMS) intervention. Therefore, our study aims to explore care professionals' perspectives about SMS within the Flemish primary care setting.

Methods

This study used

SUBMITTER: Timmermans L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10908026 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature